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ColdFusion Standard (2018 Release)

ColdFusion Standard (2016 Release)

ColdFusion 11 Standard

Performance Monitoring Toolset

Server Monitoring

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Code Profiler

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Database Monitor

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External Services Monitor

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Automatic Connector Tuning

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Document services

PDF archiving

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PDF redaction

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PDF sanitization

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Exchange comments across files

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Standardized PDF metadata

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PDF attachments

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PDF stamp support

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Microsoft Office 2010 PowerPoint file generation

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PDF file conversion from Microsoft Office 2010 Word and PowerPoint

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MS Office 2010 Excel support

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PDF form processing

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PDF document manipulation

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Server-side printing

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Online presentation generation

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PDF file generation from HTML

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Structured reporting

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Mobile development

Client-side database integration

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CFML-based mobile app development

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Device detection

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Native device APIs

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On—device debugging

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Remote inspection

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Client-side database access

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Custom tag framework

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Application Development

Full CFSCRIPT support

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Command line interface

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Member functions

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QueryExecute and Elvis operator

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Social login support and social plug-in integration

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Custom serializer and de-serializer for JSON and XML

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Object-relational mapping (ORM)

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Advanced caching (ehcache)

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Ajax UI component

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Ajax framework

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Image manipulation

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RSSand atom feed creation and consumption

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ZIP and JAR archive file manipulation

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Database introspection

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Custom server-side chart styles

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Server-side charting and graphing

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ColdFusion components (CFCs)

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XML support

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XPath support

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Web services (SOAP)

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Built-in support for REST

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File manipulation

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.NET assembly support (DLL)

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Java, servlet, and EJB connectivity

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JDBC and ODBC

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FTP and SFTP servers

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Virtual file systems (RAM)

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Virtual file systems (ZIP, JAR, FTP, SFTP)

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Multi-threaded CFML (CFTHREAD) *

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Database client connection management

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Support for additional database types

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Database exception handling

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Failover support for database

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Revamped scheduler engine

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Grouping of scheduled tasks

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Scheduled task priority

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Support for closures

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CFC auto constructor

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CFC method chaining

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For-in support for queries and lists

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Hotfix installer

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Instant notification for updates in ColdFusion Administrator

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CFScript support

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Flex and Adobe AIR lazy loading

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Advanced protocol support

Gateway architecture

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Data management service

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Data services messaging

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Enterprise IM gateways (Sametime and XMPP)

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Asynchronous CFML gateway

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SMS gateway

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JMS gateway

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TCP/IP socket gateway

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Directory watcher gateway

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Enterprise

64-bit support

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Port80 support for HTML5 web sockets

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SSLv3 support for HTML web sockets

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HTML5 charts

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Built-in HTML5 videoplayer

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Fall back from HTML5 to Adobe Flash technology and vice versa

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Skinning support for HTML5 videoplayer

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Support for events and JavaScript interface for HTML5 videoplayer

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Geo-location capability with CFMAP

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Suport for HTML5 input types

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Support for websocket protocol on server

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Interface for publish and subscribe using web socket

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Custom styles for HTML5 charts

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Integrated solutions

Embedded Apache Solr full-text search engine

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Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES integration

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Eclipse based debugging

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Flash remoting

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Adobe Dreamweaver and Eclipse extensions

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User-defined functions

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Microsoft SharePoint web parts

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Microsoft SharePoint single sign-on

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Java portal integration (JSR-168, JSR-286, WSRP)

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Email servers (POP and IMAP)

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Support for Microsoft Exchange 2010

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Microsoft Exchange server integration

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Directory servers (Active Directory and LDAP)

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Apache Tomcat integration

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Revamped Adobe Flash videoplayer

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Bidirectional Java integration

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Java classes loaded from custom paths

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Java dynamic proxies from CFCs

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Ability to invoke CFCs from Java classes

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Tight integration with ColdFusion Builder

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Security

Windows NT domain authentication

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Built-in functions to protect against XSS and CSRF

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Login mechanism

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Session cookie management

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Server manager and monitor

Desktop-based server manager

Web-based server administration

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Administrator API

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Compiled application deployment (sourceless)

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Server monitoring dashboard

* - On Standard Edition, the maximum limit of threads that can be spawned via CFTHREAD is 10. Threads created by CFTHREAD in excess of this are queued.There is no such limit on Enterprise Edition

— Restricted features in ColdFusion Standard Edition: Enterprise features run through the Enterprise Feature Router (EFR). These features run in theStandard edition. However, all features running through the EFR are limited to one shared simultaneous request